Executive Chair Research Articles

Put policies, procedures in place to address board disputes

Its natural—and common—for nonprofit boards to confront conflict in their ranks. Whether it's disputes between board members, boards and staff, or the executive director and board chair, these situations should be expected, and addressed by policies and procedures that the board and organizational founders put in place from the get‐go, according to Jeremy Barlow of board management consultancy BoardEffect.

Transitioning to more sustainable food systems that support health and wellbeing

Food is central to our health and well-being, yet many aspects of our food systems have become unhealthy and unsustainable. Our food systems today contribute significantly to, and are being destabilised by, the environmental crises we are facing. An increase in the consumption of low-quality diets is the leading cause of death and a major contributor to the burden of non-communicable diseases in Europe. Dietary guidelines issued by governments do not align at all with what is being produced, consumed, and exported. Food systems have also contributed to creating, entrenching and widening health inequalities across Europe, as subgroups of the population have little access to and ability to choose healthy and sustainable food. In addition, the benefits of current food production and consumption systems go to large transnational companies rather than small companies and primary producers; the average EU farmer for example earns 50% of the average worker in the economy. Major external shocks such as COVID-19 and the Russian war against Ukraine have reflected the vulnerability of our current systems of food production and redistribution, as experienced through growing levels of food inflation, food insecurity and hunger in Europe, and even more so in other parts of the world. Ambitious intersectoral and systemic approaches are needed to address current contradictions in our food systems, and to make them more sustainable and resilient. Public health professionals need to step up their action to highlight the impacts of unhealthy food consumption, advocating and engaging in political debates. Promising policies at the EU level, such as the Farm to Fork Strategy, Sustainable Food Law, and on Food Security, set out planned measures to make food systems more environmentally friendly, fair and healthy. Ensuring that such policies are actually implemented, and that environmental, health and social considerations are valued in equal measure as economic ones, remains however a major challenge. This plenary session will focus on what measures are urgently needed and must be prioritised to ensure more sustainable food systems and to improve health and well- being across Europe. The plenary will also discuss the challenges, and the role of health professionals in helping to achieve this critical shift. Moderators: Suzanne Costello, CEO, Institute of Public Health, Ireland Caroline Costongs, Director EuroHealthNet Video address: Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General Keynote speaker: Tim Lang, Emeritus Professor of Food Policy, City University of London, UK Panellists: Francesco Branca, Director of the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO Gunhild A. Stordalen, Founder and Executive Chair EAT Foundation, Norway Holly Cairns, TD for Cork South-West and Leader of the Social Democrats and party spokesperson on Agriculture, Food and the Marine; Rural Development; Social Justice; and Disability, Ireland Anant Jani, University of Heidelberg, Germany and Fellow Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, UK

Grand strategy and public diplomacy: A case study on China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its reception in the Australian press

This article examines China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a public diplomacy grand strategy at the macro-level of inter-state relations. It does so from the perspective of Australia, where the Andrews Labor government in the state of Victoria was, for a period, a signatory to the program. Specifically, this study uses content analysis to consider the reception of the BRI in the Australian press and the complex interactions of news values and ideologies that influenced its representation. This study shows that the effectiveness of the BRI as a grand strategy was undermined by the two interacting news cultures dominating media coverage in Australia, one of which stems from the liberal traditions of the press and the other from the conservative ideological proclivities of the Executive Chair of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch. In so doing, this study contributes to research on the different communication strategies mobilized by states in their geopolitical wrangling, as well as how contextual variables can pre-determine the success or failure of specific public diplomacy campaigns.

Water, Soap, Technology…

Abstract Criticism of health IT is easy to find. However, healthcare is reliant upon and much improved by IT in its many guises. BCS is very involved with this area. Philip Scott CITP FBCS, the BCS Health and Care Executive Chair, spoke to Brian Runciman MBCS about why he takes an optimistic approach.

Nonkululeko Gobodo: a challenger challenged

Learning outcomes This case study aims to ensure that, students should be able to recognise the behaviours that influence the in-member out-member categorisation that transpires in the workplace, both from the leader’s perspective and that of the followers; determine and understand the relevance of forming interpersonal relationships in the workplace and that interpersonal relationships create fundamentally positive or negative work experiences and impact on career opportunities in the workplace; gain an understanding of the internal bias and subjective comfort that leaders must actively overcome to establish an environment in which the entire team becomes in-group members; and be able to assess the contextual variables that contribute to the negative or positive aggravation of the leader–member exchange. Case overview/synopsis It was 16 October 2014, and Nonkululeko Gobodo, Executive Chair of accounting firm SizweNtsalubaGobodo, was looking to her younger sister, Notemba Dlova, for emotional support, as she sought to address an important issue that was on the agenda of the firm’s board of directors’ meeting the following day. Tensions between her and Victor Sekese, Chief Executive Officer of the firm, were mounting, and a number of the directors were unhappy with the status quo. “How do you think I should address the issue?” she asked Dlova. Both sisters knew that at stake was Gobodo’s future at the firm she had battled so hard to build up in the face of racial and gender stereotypes. Complexity academic level The case study is appropriate for use in a range of postgraduate courses aimed at Master’s in Management and Master of Business Administration (MBA)-level students. It is also suitable for use in postgraduate diplomas in business and executive education short courses. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 6: Human Resource Management.

Executive Board Chairs: Examining the Performance Consequences of a Corporate Governance Hybrid.

Traditional agency theory views the proper role of the board chair exclusively as providing independent oversight to monitor and control the CEO. Recently, firms have introduced innovations in board leadership that have confounded these theoretical expectations. One notable innovation is the executive board chair, a corporate governance hybrid responsible for both oversight and strategic decision-making, challenging agency theory's prescription that the two activities remain separate. In this study, we argue that an executive board chair position can resolve the trade-off between independent oversight and involvement in strategy and therefore generate a performance advantage. We also predict that, owing to the blurring of lines between the CEO and board chair roles that the executive board chair position creates, the relationship will be stronger the greater the need to monitor and control the CEO but weaker when organizational complexity and board leadership demands are greater. Analysis of S&P 1500 firms from 2003 to 2017 provides general support for our arguments.

Interview with Professor Chaitanya Mishra

Professor Chaitanya Mishra teaches Sociology to MPhil/PhD students at Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. His research focuses on macrosociology, politics, social change, and social stratification. He is an author/co-author, and co-editor of 10 books and about 250 articles. He believes that all sciences should contribute to public education, and frequently contributes to public debates through the media. He started his career in 1978 as a researcher at the Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, TU. In 1981, he was appointed the founder Chair of the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, TU. He has written on the development of sociological knowledge in Nepal, its disciplinary growth, empirical and theoretical orientations, as well as strategies that could be adopted to meet contemporary disciplinary challenges. His contributions have led to theoretical debates on the issues of development or underdevelopment of Nepali society as well as the nature and causes of economic and political divisions and alternative trajectory of change. Professor Mishra served as a member of Nepal’s National Planning Commission (1994-95), founding president of Nepal Sociological Association (2017-18), Fulbright Visiting Professor and Hubert Humphrey Professor of Sociology at Macalester College (2015-16), and founding Executive Chair of the Policy Research Institute (2018-19) of the Government of Nepal.

A perspective on UNSCOM culture

ABSTRACT In this article, the author – who served as special adviser to UNSCOM’s executive chair and spokesperson for UNSCOM for nearly four years – focuses on the way in which UNSCOM’s organization and culture evolved to adapt to its mission to destroy, remove, and render harmless Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and its long-range missiles.

Between two wars

ABSTRACT In this article, Rolf Ekéus, Swedish ambassador and UNSCOM executive chair from 1991 to 1997 gives his perspective on the UNSCOM process.

Some long-term effects of UNSCOM: People are important, or, therein lies much of the problem

ABSTRACT In this article, Charles A. Duelfer, Deputy Executive Chair of UNSCOM, 1993–1998, and Head of the Iraq Survey Group, 2004–2005, finds that UNSCOM demonstrated the value of access to individuals in achieving monitoring goals. A vital aspect of UNSCOM’s inspection authorities (arguably the most important) was the access to interview identified individuals. “Experts talking to experts” produced data and intangible, but critical, confidence in the weapons of mass destruction declarations of Iraq.

Call to action: the 10-point plan for the non-surgical aesthetics and hair restoration sector

Journal of Aesthetic NursingVol. 10, No. 3 Joint Council for Cosmetic PractitionersCall to action: the 10-point plan for the non-surgical aesthetics and hair restoration sectorDavid SinesDavid SinesE: E-mail Address: [email protected]Executive Chair, Joint Council for Cosmetic PractitionersSearch for more papers by this authorDavid SinesPublished Online:7 Apr 2021https://doi.org/10.12968/joan.2021.10.3.118AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2 April 2021Volume 10Issue 3ISSN (print): 2050-3717ISSN (online): 2052-2878 Metrics History Published online 7 April 2021 Published in print 2 April 2021 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

Preface

Proceeding Young Scholar Symposium on Science Education and Environment (YSSSEE) 22-23 September 2020, Lampung, Indonesia Preface Young Scholar Symposium on Science Education and Environment (YSSSEE) is the annual conference held by Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan, Lampung, Indonesia. The theme of this conference is Science, Technology and Education for Sustainable Environment with the Focus and Scope of this research including (1) Physics; (2) Material Sciences; (3) Applied Physics; (4) Natural Sciences; (5) Sciences Education; (6) Mathematics; (7) Mathematics Education; and (8) Environmental Sciences.The keynote presentations are provided to talk the current issues in Education and Environment. The keynote speaker Prof. Konstantinos Ravanis, Ph.D., from Laboratory of Didactics of Sciences, University of Patras, Greece, presented the study of the physical sciences in early childhood education. Prof. Dr. Husin Alatas, M.Si., from Institut Pertanian Bogor, Indonesia, presented the study about Understanding complexity paradigm & sustainability of complex system. Jisun Park, Ph.D., Ewha Womans University, South Korea, presented the study about students’ unintended learning in elementary school practical science lessons. Korhan Cengiz, Ph.D., presented the study about novel energy efficient protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Prof. Cari, Ph.D., Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, Indonesia, presented the study about physics and mathematics language as a physics learning tool. Dr. Achmad Samsudin, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia, presented the study about measuring students’ conceptions on physics concepts: a case in Indonesia.We would like to thank to all of the participants attending this conference and also to committee for their contribution to this high-level conference and its overall success. We also would like to thank to the reviewers for their positive contribution to maintain the quality of the articles presented in this conference. We also appreciate the contribution of our sponsor supporting the conference.List of Executive Chair, Organizer, Co-Organized, Keynote Speaker, Advisory Board, Organizing Committee, Documentations of YSSSEE arein this pdf.

As Amazon rolls out pharmacy venture, pharmacists must be at top of their game

When online retail giant Amazon launched its new pharmacy venture in November 2020, chain community pharmacy stocks, including Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid, tumbled in response. The market reaction suggested that community pharmacy stood to take a major hit in the wake of Amazon's newest enterprise. But, experts say that this newcomer to the pharmacy world gives community pharmacists the opportunity to demonstrate the unique value of the services they offer. “The key,” said Kurt Proctor, PhD, BSPharm, senior vice president of strategic initiatives for the National Community Pharmacists Association, “is that community pharmacists clearly communicate to their patients the value that they bring. You can’t rest on your laurels and assume that all your customers will be loyal. You need to be at the top of your game.” Independent pharmacies account for just over a third of all community pharmacies. While chain community pharmacies lost stores in the last decade, independent community pharmacies saw their ranks grow by nearly 13%, according to data from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs. With an estimated 23,000 independent pharmacies operating across the country, Proctor said, “It's a healthy number, but there's not one on every corner. So, if someone is using an independent, it's a conscious choice to do so.” Those patients who make a conscious choice to use independent community pharmacies likely won’t find value in Amazon's services, said Dan Benamoz, BSPharm, founder and executive chair of Pharmacy Development Services, a pharmacy consulting service. Community pharmacies will always stand to lose patients who prioritize price or convenience over anything else. But those who see value in independent pharmacy should be the focus of pharmacists’ attention, Benamoz said. “If pharmacies are only focused on filling as many prescriptions as they can, there is a lot of reason to be concerned about Amazon,” said Marci Strauss, PharmD, who is a performance specialist at Pharmacy Development Services. “For those pharmacies that differentiate themselves, focus on patient care, and provide clinical services to help drive outcomes, those are areas where it will be hard for any entity like Amazon Pharmacy to compete. They are not in the community, and they don’t know their patients.” Pharmacy Development Services provides community pharmacies with strategies to help grow their business. Benamoz advises pharmacists who want to maintain their edge over Amazon Pharmacy to focus on relationships. “One thing that will survive the test of the digital era, and something that the younger generation is thirsting for too, is relationships,” Benamoz said. “When it comes to medicine, people would much rather have someone they can talk to and somebody who knows them.” An online retailer cannot know its customers the way a community pharmacist knows its patients. “I don’t care how many Prime trucks you see driving around the neighborhood, none of them are going to answer the phone at midnight when you have an emergency,” Proctor said. Besides fostering face-to-face relationships, many community pharmacies also have the capacity to offer the same high-tech conveniences, such as refill requests through smartphone apps, that online retailers do. In many cases, the small businesses can provide more personalized versions of these modern conveniences than their online counterparts. “Independents do hand delivery,” Proctor said. “That's not mail delivery. It's not sitting on your front porch; it's not sitting in your mailbox at whatever temperature the box happens to be that day. This is delivery directly to you at your door.” Pharmacists who are concerned about how Amazon Pharmacy may affect their bottom line can look back on how mail-order pharmacy affected their business at its inception. At the advent of this new pharmacy platform, many patients switched from their community pharmacies only after their health plans forced or heavily incentivized them to do so. Some evidence suggests that people who are forced to use a mail-order pharmacy when it is not their preference are more likely to discontinue their medications altogether. For those patients, the convenience of delivery by mail did not outweigh the value of their local pharmacy. “Many people love the convenience of online digital platforms like Amazon Prime,” Strauss said, “but there are so many patients, across every generation, who need the personalized care and the types of services that they could never get from an online platform.”

Commitees

List of titles Sorting by the first name, 2020 ICDT Co-Chairs, 2020 ICDT Executive Chair, 2020 ICDT Board of Directors, 2020 ICDT Academic Advisory Committee are available in this pdf.

Strategic entrepreneurship and performance: an institutional perspective on Indian family businesses

PurposeThere is a growing consensus that entrepreneurial activity is essentially a collective family endeavour, with some configuration of family involvement in business (FIB) working better than others. This paper aims to examine the effects of FIB on strategy and financial performance (FP), drawing from the institutional theory for the Indian family businesses.Design/methodology/approachThe sample comprises of 105 pharmaceutical companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange for FY2013–2017. A two-way random effects panel model was invoked to examine the relationship between FIB and strategy, as well as the intermediating effect that strategy has on the FIB-FP link.FindingsOn average, the family has a high ownership concentration, with the founders predominantly holding the chief executive officer (CEO) and chair positions. The econometric results highlight that the founder’s descendants adopt a conservative strategy. A significant positive moderating effect of strategy on FIB-FP link was observed for the descendants as the largest owners, CEO and board chair. The presence of a professional CEO and independent chair, however, leads to an intervening adverse impact on FP. The ownership-management-governance configurations highlight that some combinations of family and non-FIB leads to better performance than others.Originality/valueThe study provides a plausible explanation for the conflicting evidence on the direct FIB-FP relationship through the strategy intermediation. The institutional perspective emphasizing the identity and role family members play in terms of strategy provides an unconventional epistemological underpinning to the present research.

Manifesto for change: governance and regulation within the aesthetics industry

Journal of Aesthetic NursingVol. 9, No. 8 Joint Council for Cosmetic PractitionersManifesto for change: governance and regulation within the aesthetics industryDavid SinesDavid SinesE: E-mail Address: [email protected]Executive Chair, Joint Council for Cosmetic PractitionersSearch for more papers by this authorDavid SinesPublished Online:7 Oct 2020https://doi.org/10.12968/joan.2020.9.8.350AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View article References Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority. CPSA clinical and practice standards. 2018. http://www.cosmeticstandards.org.uk/uploads/1/0/6/2/106271141/cpsa_overarching_principles_for_consultation_final.pdf (accessed 21 September 2020) Google ScholarHealth Education England. Report on implementation of qualification requirements for cosmetic procedures: non-surgical cosmetic interventions and hair restoration surgery. 2015. https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/HEE%20Cosmetic%20publication%20part%20two.pdf (accessed 21 September 2020) Google ScholarJoint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners. Competency framework for cosmetic practice. 2018. https://www.jccp.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/JCCP%20Competency%20Framework%20final%20V8%20September%202018.pdf (accessed 21 September 2020) Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 2 October 2020Volume 9Issue 8ISSN (print): 2050-3717ISSN (online): 2052-2878 Metrics History Published online 7 October 2020 Published in print 2 October 2020 Information© MA Healthcare LimitedPDF download

Clinically Relevant Vulnerabilities of Deep Machine Learning Systems for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

Clinically Relevant Vulnerabilities of Deep Machine Learning Systems for Skin Cancer Diagnosis

The Best of Both Worlds? Examining the Performance Consequences of Executive Board Chairs

Agency theory views the proper role of the board chair exclusively as providing independent oversight to monitor and control the CEO. Recently, firms have introduced an innovation in board leadership that confounds this view. The executive board chair, a governance hybrid involved in both strategy and oversight, challenges agency theory’s prescription that the two remain separate. We argue that executive board chairs can contribute the necessary expertise for effective governance without the conflict of interest associated with CEO duality—and therefore generate stronger performance. We also argue that the performance advantage differs depending on the type of agency problem most in need of mitigation (i.e., principal-agent or principal-principal). Analysis of S&P 1500 firms from 2003 to 2017 provides general support for our arguments.

Committees

List of 2020 ICDT Co-Chairs, 2020 ICDT Executive Chair, 2020 ICDT Board of Directors and 2020 ICDT Academic Advisory Committee are available in this pdf.

Preface

Proceeding Young Scholar Symposium on Science Education and Environment (YSSSEE) 4-5 November 2019, Lampung, Indonesia Young Scholar Symposium on Science Education and Environment 2019 (YSSSEE 2019) is an annual symposium held by Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan Lampung. The first symposium is “Young Scholar Symposium on Transdisciplinary in Education and Environment (YSSTEE)” in 2018 in Bandar Lampung (Capital city of Lampung province) and the manuscripts were published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series Volume 1155. The theme of this conference is Science, Technology and Education: How Do They Solve the Environmental Issues? With the Focus and Scope of this research including (1) Physics; (2) Material Sciences; (3) Applied Physics; (4) Natural Sciences; (5) Sciences Education; (6) Mathematics; (7) Mathematics Education; and (8) Environmental Sciences.The keynote presentations are provided to talk the current issues in Education and Environment. The keynote speaker Hasan Said Tortop, Ph.D., editor in chief Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists (JEGYS), Turkey, presents the study of Education model (Mentor and E-mentor) for gifted young scientists. Kittisak Jermsittiparsert, Ph.D., Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, presents the study of Higher Education as a Sustainable Development Goals. Ismail Suardi Wekke, STAIN Sorong, Indonesia, presents the study of University and Environmental Awareness. Dr. rer. Nat. Roniyus Marjunus, M.Si., Universitas Lampung, Indonesia presents the study about how to transform sand to gas sensor.We would like to thank to all of the participants attending this conference and also to committee for their contribution to this high-level conference and its overall success. We also would like to thank to the reviewers for their positive contribution to maintain the quality of the articles presented in this conference. We also appreciate the contribution of our sponsor supporting the conference.List of Executive Chair, Organizer, Co-Organized, DESCRIPTIONS, DEADLINES, Keynote Speaker, Advisory Board, Organizing Committee, Reviewers, Documentations of YSSSEE, Photos, Logos are available in this pdf.